The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

90 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
six hundred thousand years ago, probably much
more, because we have still the colossal wrecks of
wonderful empires which stand to-day, pitiful
monuments to the greatness of the builders and
the everlasting shame of the men who accomplished
their ruin. 1 The Titanic monuments of a forgotten
past found in Central and South America, and
some parts of Asia, like the African ruins of
Zimbabwi, the Great Pyramids, lead most men to
exclaim, " Who were these old builders? Whence
came they? By what lost art did they chisel
those perfect edges and angles? By what means
did they move these ponderous masses to such
perfect adjustment, a marvel of delicate and
beautiful workmanship? Overwhelming
in their
grandeur are those scattered remains." It is only
by the origin and evolution of man that an
irrefutable answer can be given. They came from
Egypt, and their Temples and buildings can always
be identified. These Stellar people always built
iconographically. The Solar did not because the
gods and goddesses which had been represented
by Zootypes in the Stellar cult were now (in the
Solar) represented by the Human form. The
Stellar therefore were prehuman and the Solar
human depictions. They both built with Polygonalshaped
stones and Monoliths, but the Stellar works
1 The same thing is being enacted again to-day by the
German Huns.